Nate Silver Quotes
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
